"That Hideous Strength" and "The Abolition of Man" - Impermissible Ideas

book | 1945 | C.S. Lewis (November 29, 1898 -- November 22, 1963)

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A wee bit more.

The leaders of the NICE worship a demon-inhabited decapitated head.

As in literal worship.

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It was my favorite book in high school, and for years thereafter.

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I liked the first two better, as the last seemed more in line with some horror story using the theme of nihilistic science which I dislike.

It was modeled on the supernatural thrillers of Charles Williams, a longtime friend from Oxford.

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One of my favorite vignettes (paraphrasing): “It doesn’t pay to look too closely at the dishes after it’s the men’s turn to do the washing up”

"The cardinal difficulty," said MacPhee, " in collaboration between the sexes is that women speak a language without nouns. If two men are doing a bit of work one will say to the other, ' Put this bowl inside the bigger bowl which you'll find on the top shelf of the green cupboard.' The female for this is, ' Put that in the other one in there.' There is consequently a phatic hiatus." He pronounced this so as to rhyme with 'get at us.'

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Well, there is a battle at the end.

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“The Ball and the Cross” -- this predicts the pathologizing of everything the SJWs don't like. Perdinavititis!

“The Man Who was Thursday”: best quote--

“Mean!” said the new policeman with incredible violence. “It means that we are struck dead! Don’t you know Sunday? Don’t you know that his jokes are always so big and simple that one has never thought of them? Can you think of anything more like Sunday than this, that he should put all his powerful enemies on the Supreme Council, and then take care that it was not supreme?